I’m a bit of a black sheep at Lush because I am not an early adopter; I’m more the bandwagon type. I wasn’t in the line for the first iPhone and I was not the first of my friends to join Facebook. I don’t have the patience to be there first, sitting through repairs, bug... | Continue reading
The first footage from Laika Studios’ new stop-motion feature Kubo and the Two Strings started emerging out in 2015, and it was exciting stuff. The studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman, and The BoxTrolls has always been an ambitious innovator in the stop-motion field, but Kubo look … | Continue reading
A new filing from the government has struck back at one of the central claims in Apple's San Bernardino defense. One of the most controversial aspects of the case has been FBI handling of Syed Farook's phone in the days after the shooting, particularly the decision to reset the p … | Continue reading
By all accounts, the Patriot Hot Wheels Computer was a poorly executed idea. Released alongside the virtually identical Barbie Computer (the two were respectively "Designed specially for Boys [sic]" and "Designed specially for Girls") in the fall of 1999, it sold for $599 and cam … | Continue reading
Every year, Jeep enthusiasts gather in Moab, Utah for Easter Jeep Safari, a weeklong celebration of the iconic SUV, off-roading, and the gorgeous Utah desert. This year is the 50th edition of the event, and Jeep — the company — is bringing along some special concept Jeeps to show … | Continue reading
Nintendo Wii U owners have long wished for a streaming option that Playstation and Xbox have had for some time, Spotify. Well, you still won’t have Spotify, but Nintendo has at least given a passable option by announcing today that it was bringing Rhapsody, and its 30 million-plu … | Continue reading
Late last year, Congress passed legislation that substantially improved the legal landscape for startups, early-stage companies and the stakeholders in the ecosystem. You might have read about, for example, Congress making permanent the 100 percent tax exclusion for sales of qual … | Continue reading
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Haven OnDemand machine learning-centric developer platform has been around since late 2014, but it’s only coming out of beta and becoming commercially available today. Haven OnDemand, which is hosted on Microsoft’s Azure platform, provides developers … | Continue reading
Product management tool Propel announced today that it closed a $4.2 million series A investment led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners. Propel’s product, built on Salesforce, promises a service that “helps everyone involved in launching new products coordinate all the product, custo … | Continue reading
Parta Games has just soft launched Choppa in a few countries including Canada. This game is kind of like what would happen if Retry [Free] was less about speedrunning and more about saving people from burning fires. You navigate hazardous courses – and the occasional bird that wa … | Continue reading
Graphic design on a budget is intimidating, but designing CTAs with an aim for engagement & conversions has never been easier. | Continue reading
Today, prosecutors filed a new motion seeking to compel Apple to break security measures on an iPhone used in the San Bernardino attacks. "The government and the community need to know what is on the terrorist’s phone, and the government needs Apple’s assistance to find out," the … | Continue reading
Have you ever been riding in an Uber and become suddenly overtaken by the immediate need for a new Android tablet or a Dell Latitude E6420?Yeah, me neither. Read More | Continue reading
Nest just added two long-sought-after featuresYou already know that the Nest Learning Thermostat is not your average home thermostat. It's smart. It's watching.See also: You'll soon be able to control a Nest thermostat from Amazon EchoThe home smart device (from a company owned b … | Continue reading
Adam Green is best known as one half of anti-folk duo The Moldy Peaches, but he's also a filmmaker and an artist, creating bright, cartoonish paintings as well as collages and papier-mâché sculptures. The trailer for his upcoming film, Adam Green's Aladdin, manages to mix all the … | Continue reading
Android N is generating a lot of buzz with its split-screens and improved battery life, but there's also a potentially life-saving feature that comes with the newest Android makeover. A new Emergency Info screen will let you add details including name, address, date of birth, blo … | Continue reading
GUEST: Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive officer of Microsoft and the current owner of the L.A. Clippers, has a lot to say about Microsoft — especially about the Microsoft Azure cloud business. In an interview with Bloomberg, he argued that since the company was betting b … | Continue reading
What Android N appears to do is effectively break Android into two distinct pieces: a backstage and a front stage. | Continue reading
Retro City Rampage DX, the enhanced port of Brian Provinciano's throwback to arcade games of yore, is out today on iOS devices.Priced at £3.99 / $4.99, the mobile version of Retro City Rampage includes the entire game, right down to all its mini-games and the anaglyphic 3D racer … | Continue reading
Each year, Jeep creates and unveils some crazy concepts for the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah. However, this year's concepts might take the cake. That's because, along with six other truly inspired 4x4s, Jeep has debuted a Wrangler with a 707-horsepower V8 engine.See also: Sor … | Continue reading
You might remember that quite a few months back, we wrote about Failbetter Games deciding to bring its browser game Fallen London over to mobile. Well, today we finally got the news that we'll be getting Fallen London's intriguing version of the supernatural to mobile on April 16 … | Continue reading
The executive director of the ESMA has said the agency believes blockchain tech could enhance the post-trade process. | Continue reading
A newly-discovered bacterium that feeds on plastic could help develop new recycling methods. The discovery was made by researchers from Japan, who say that the microorganism is remarkable for its ability to breakdown completely a common type of plastic known as PET. This digestiv … | Continue reading
This week on The Verge's flagship podcast, Nilay and Dieter are joined by news editor Jake Kastrenakes; discussing Google's Android N, Samsung's Galaxy S7, while our very own space cadet Loren Grush talks Blue Origin news. Stay tuned for an all-new episode of Vergecast at 4:30PM … | Continue reading
Amazon.com went down for some users on Thursday afternoon.Users trying to access the Amazon website as well as the mobile app were greeted with error messages.This story is developing... Read more...More about Amazon, Marketing, Tech, and Apps Software | Continue reading
Amazon.com is having a little trouble loading today. Amazon Web Services and Amazon Prime Music also seem to be struggling, while the company’s regional ones like Amazon.ca appear to be working just fine. We first spotted the outage at 11:20 a.m. Pacific. The site is displaying a … | Continue reading
In a ruling last month, Federal Court Judge John Gleeson has become the first to admit the existence of the NSA’s infamous PRISM program by name, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLUO. PRISM, as you’ll recall, was a program that gained a fai … | Continue reading
PR firms are justifiably fighting back against a New York State agency’s ruling that would require PR firms involved in public policy issues to register as lobbyists. Five New York PR firms filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan against New York’s Joint … | Continue reading
Apple just pulled off a major scheduling coup. After months of rumors, the company announced today that its next product announcement will come on March 21st, just one day before the company defends itself against government efforts to break security on a phone linked to the San … | Continue reading
SPLT is bringing ridesharing to the corporate world. Instead of pairing you up with strangers who happen to be heading the same way, SPLT is targeted at large organizations to help ease the logistical and environmental impact of ping-ponging back and forth between the home and th … | Continue reading
Billion-dollar coworking startup success WeWork is now added to the growing list of tech companies clashing with former employees in court over proper treatment, as a report from BuzzFeed indicates that it will go to court over improperly terminating an employee who had raised co … | Continue reading
Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today, although the company still isn’t ready to share when the operating system will be available for older devices. The latest build includes improvements to the Phone app, Outlook, and Calendar. Like the last mobile build, thi … | Continue reading
One of the finest racing experiences to date available for Android devices, and more specifically NVIDIA SHIELD, is Real Racing 3 from Electronic Arts. However, what was already a comprehensive racing package has shifted up another gear with the release of a major new NASCAR upda … | Continue reading
Microsoft spends a lot of time and money developing many technologies that could end up being part of the company’s next products. For instance, the company has many researchers working on artificial intelligence, which powers real-time speech translation with Skype Translator. B … | Continue reading
You know. If you’re one of the few who have already managed to get their hands on a Galaxy S7. | Continue reading
Lamassu Bitcoin ATMs are now capable of supporting Ethereum too. read more | Continue reading
Netflix's latest movie acquisition is Hush, a micro-budget thriller from director Mike Flanagan that's premiering at SXSW this weekend. Flanagan also wrote and produced the movie, which stars co-writer Kate Siegel as a reclusive author suffering from hearing loss who's being hunt … | Continue reading
We’re busy getting ready for a full week of coverage of the Game Developers Conference. Our team includes GamesBeat news writer Jeff Grubb, GamesBeat community manager Mike Minotti, and GamesBeat managing editor Jason Wilson. We’ll be covering everything from Monday through Frida … | Continue reading
LG has just sent out a press release with word that the LG G5 is coming to the United States sometime in early April. | Continue reading
Solo developer Jared Baily of Nocanwin has long been one of my favorite developers, not just because he has the best first name in existence, but because he's constantly trying new and interesting ideas for games. After his well-received Rocket Ski Racing [Free] released back in … | Continue reading
Toki Tori developer Two Tribes will be closing its doors this autumn, but not before releasing shmup Rive in September.So why shut down the studio when it still has one final game on the docket? According to Two Tribes, it's because they're "dinosaurs".The studio explained in a n … | Continue reading
A new Deloitte report suggests that blockchain-based transactions are likely to surge over the next decade. | Continue reading
Solar energy is one of the fastest growing new industries in the United States, earning a shout out from President Obama at his State of the Union speech. The president noted that it is now a bigger business than coal, and typically pays its workers a higher wage. Now a Colorado- … | Continue reading
Oh, hoverboard, how do we describe thee? These exploding toys are a far cry from what Back to the Future promised us — but "a hoverboard-esque board that doesn't really hover" doesn't have quite the same ring.Hence, the very real struggle to accurately describe these ..things. Th … | Continue reading
Finally released into the wild after two beta tests, The Division fully opens its incredibly detailed recreation of New York City to the masses. Besides a few issues, the game seems to be holding up well. Online connections have been consistently stable for us, while in terms of … | Continue reading
Sony's betting that voice recognition and face detection can finally take lifelogging mainstream. We're not so sure. | Continue reading
Developers love using GitHub, and when it comes to managing projects, they’re likely to go through the platform’s task management offering — GitHub Issues. While it works well for developers, it can be a bit complex for less technically inclined members of the team, resulting in … | Continue reading